Speed and car used regulation in urban areas : Paris and Lyon case studies

Speed and car used regulation in urban areas : Paris and Lyon case studies

[SHS:ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economy and finances

Individual daily mobility

Modal transfer

Transport modelling

Traffic management

Traffic simulation

car use restriction

public transport

Improvements in individual mobility conditions for drivers in the Paris conurbation (higher speed and lower cost of individual mobility) have contributed to the reduction of urban areas density and have led to dominant use of the car and a dramatic reduction in walking and cycling, while the use of public transport has remained roughly constant. The car now highly dominated the other transport modes in many places including the Paris metropolitan area. As a consequence of a car domination, a great part of the public opinion claims a reduction of a car use and the development of alternative forms of transport. The aim of this study is to determine whether those claims are consistent with the actual present car traffic speeds. More precisely, our aim was to try to answer some questions: have car drivers a good appreciation of a car speed performance? How many are car's drivers who could save time by using other modes of transport? What can be expected from a drastic growth of the public transport supply and/or from a reduction of the car speed in order to reduce the car usage and consequently the car traffic flows. This paper presents our methodology and the major results obtained through numerical simulation based on Paris and Lyon conurbations figures.

Massot, Marie-Hélène

Armoogum, Jimmy

Bonnel, Patrick

Caubel, David

WCTRS, ITU. 10th World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR'04, 4-8 juillet 2004, Istanbul, Turkey - (Selected Proceedings)

WCTRS, ITU. 10th World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR'04, 4-8 juillet 2004, Istanbul, Turkey - (Selected Proceedings)

WCTRS, ITU. 10th World Conference on Transport Research - WCTR'04, 4-8 juillet 2004, Istanbul, Turkey - (Selected Proceedings)

2004

ENG

conference proceeding

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00096744

PUBLICNRS: 518787

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/09/67/44/PDF/wctr_2004.pdf

Lyon

France